Senior Product Manager in our Publishing division, Pharmaceutical Press
Salary: up to £65,000 per annum
We're seeking a forward-thinking, tech-savvy Senior Product Manager to join our innovative Product Team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a customer-centric mindset who thrives on shaping the future of digital products.
In this strategic role, you'll collaborate with a dedicated team of Product Managers, developers, and stakeholders. Your joint mission will be to develop high-value products and features, identify exciting market opportunities, and champion our extraordinary product capabilities.
As a Senior Product Manager, your insight will be crucial in transforming our systems, opening the door to new product development capabilities. You'll explore diverse opportunities across an array of products within our Publishing portfolio, including content platforms, apps, APIs, and product websites.
We're looking for someone who thrives on change, possesses a high degree of commercial acumen, and enjoys the challenge of solving complex business problems. You'll be instrumental in defining and delivering the product roadmap, designing effective business solutions, and planning product development.You'll also work closely with our sales and marketing teams to implement go-to-market activities.
Reporting to the Head of Product, you'll drive the development of new products and platforms that align with our organisation's objectives. Simultaneously, you'll support the ongoing development of our product team.
Requirements:
Commercial Acumen: You have a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a creative approach to problem-solving. You're detail-oriented and able to maintain a focus on the bigger picture. Ideally, you have experience in a B2B commercial environment.Product Development: Ideally, you have four or more years of product management experience, working closely with technical development teams using Agile methodologies.
Technical Proficiency: You're confident working with data and content and can quickly grasp technical concepts. Experience with Python is a plus.
User Experience: You have an exemplary customer focus and can translate customer and business needs into requirements. You have experience developing and facilitating customer Discovery sessions and are skilled at communicating complex information to both end users and internal stakeholders.
Communication and Relationship Building: Your excellent communication skills allow you to sell product visions to a broad audience, ranging from team members to end-users and senior managers.Negotiating and Influencing: You have strong negotiation and persuasion skills, along with the ability to lead multiple projects within a matrix environment.
The Directorate
In the Publishing Directorate, we’re the world leaders in evidence-based pharmaceutical publications and guidance. Pharmacists and other healthcare professionals trust us to provide expert analysis, educational support, webinars, and news that informs, supports and enhances their practice.We independently source, evaluate, and communicate and make practical medicines knowledge accessible worldwide. In the Publishing Directorate, the following teams work collaboratively to provide our world-class products: the Journals team; the Sales and Marketing team; the Technology team; the Product team (in which this role sits), and the Editorial team.
How we are currently working
RPS supports and works in a hybrid way, which means you will be able to work from home, however, there will be an expectation for collaborative face-to-face working – on average and typically this may be something between 4-8 working days per month at our London Office.
Closing date: 8 November 2024
If you would like to learn more about the role, please view our careers page.
We are passionate about creating a culture of belonging, inclusion, and diversity these are part of our core values at RPS and we are striving to have an organisation that represents the diversity of the profession. At RPS we do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, age, or disability and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.